Finally watched Japan Sinks after wanting to watch it since the start of this season. Watched it in one go (there are only 10 EPs). And I must say, that I can completely understand the rating here on MAL. The whole pacing throughout the anime is totally weird and to fast.
Character seem to be happy just a short time after someone died and it doesnt seem like its the "Im hurt, I want to cry but I will pretend Im happy" kind of happy. The characters move on to quickly after a lot of deaths. The only "good" pacings in death scenes were [Spoiler] the death of Kunio Hikita (the old convenience store man, "fine" pacing) and Koga Haruo (senpai of Ayumu, Good pacing). In general characters often behave very strangely given their situation.
The art style/design is occasionally very weird like teenage characters faces looking like they are 40 years old or something, proportions being weird considering der age (huge hands, huge body in general) or they straight up look just like goblins. But in general its a fine art style which could have been (really) good if it were handled accordingly/better and if it werent for the above mentioned flaws.
Towards the end there are a few better scences with better pacing etc and the ending in itself reaches from "okay" up to "good".
But those scences arent enough to raise the raiting to a 7.
My final rating: 6/10 or 6.5/10 max.
